House plots (menzils) and neighborhood formation in seventeenth century Ottoman Ankara

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Bölükbaşı, Cemile Feyzan

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This study focuses on the architectural and urban characteristics of the neighborhoods and the house plots (menzils) in Ankara city, the sanjak center of the Ankara Sanjak, in the Anadolu Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century. It analyzes and evaluates the administrative-legal, architectural-urban, and social-cultural aspects of Ankara neighborhoods, based on Ankara’s seventeenth century qadi (Şeriyye) registers. First of all, the meaning of the neighborhood as a concept is discussed. Its position in the urban sense is researched and explained within the Ottoman legal-administrative background. Depending on the laws of the Ottoman Empire, the study examines and states the architectural types of construction in the neighborhood and their fields of activity. After explaining the neighborhood’s urban and architectural background, the case study, Ankara neighborhoods and house plots(menzils) in the seventeenth century, is examined, referring to the Sharia records, an essential archival document. Based on the data obtained in this direction, analyses and evaluations were made about the green-vacant areas, menzil(house)/building plots, and streets that constitute the urban elements of the neighborhood. On the other hand, the types of buildings based on the waqf and private property system that make up the neighborhood’s architecture have been revealed in detail and evaluated together with their features. House plots (menzils), connected to the private property system and form the residential texture of the neighborhoods, have been analyzed according to their spatial characteristics. Through other events reflected in the qadi registers, the neighborhood relations and other social events are discussed in detail, and the socio-cultural background of the neighborhood is explained. Thus, seventeenth century Ankara neighborhoods are evaluated together with all the elements that make up the neighborhood.

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Ottoman, Ankara, Neighborhood, Urban, Architecture

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C. F. Bölükbaşı, “House plots (menzils) and neighborhood formation in seventeenth century Ottoman Ankara,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2022.